Many professors, en masse, have very strongly suggested that it is no longer "worth" it to strive to get a PhD in English literature. Their wording was often a keen intervention: the "times" have changed, in the preceding decades. In short, as I understand it, their argument - which I have been given to believe - was that English is a useless degree. On the whole, they each in turn would cite the same factors in our current environment, including "political" overtures, with respect to state government and cut funding issues, including the adjunct situation, the wholesale lack of tenure-track positions, etc. as well-known reasons. Moreover, we are all well aware of the widespread lack of interest in the humanities & social sciences, with STEM being favored and put forward as invaluable to a contemporary, technological society. To wit, there is no privilege in being a high school English educator/teacher, as there might still be in aerospace engineering. Again and again, the time is simply not ripe for it, rendering the liberal arts as roundly worthless, insofar as making money and earning a stable income is concerned. The final nail in this post-modern "coffin handbill" is that people simply do not read. Assuming I paint a dreary picture of a bleak house, you are free to change this view.
Submitted September 18, 2018 at 11:41PM by attic-orator https://ift.tt/2D9KVZC
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